Um the hen is a ROOSTER!

[Inkheart]

Ok please tell me that i am NOT the only one that has experienced this. My NeW Hampshire hen is a rooster! LOL. I brought "her " home last fall - sold to me as a 8 month old hen - looked like a hen - the rooster never batted an eye when "it " came in . No spurs - tho i have to say i had never seen it lay or anything BUT most of my eggs are about the same varying colors so i assumed "she " was. Well this spring it has been going after the rooster - and generally being kind of a jerk. Well this morning - doing chores - hear a crow that i know is not my cochin rooster and certainly isnt a bantam rock crow - there she is out side crowing "her " fool head off . HOW DID THIS ONE GET PAST ME!?!?!?!?!

 

[CMV]

It happens. I've never had a roo sneak past me, but I've had 2 hens I was convinced were roos until they started laying. Maybe you have a crowing hen?

Good luck.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

If it was 8 mo this fall then at over a year old you can easily see if it's a rooster. Hens can crow. Here is a production red rooster:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=485718

 

[OhMyItsAndyy]

Maybe it's one of those crazy gender changing hens?
Agreed that sometimes chickens are sneaky but it has been heard that a hen sort of developes like a rooster. I don't know much about them but they get big wattles, comb etc and look and act like a rooster. They can't reproduce however? I dunno, its an idea

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ex-swap-hen-stuns-owner-turning-cockerel.html

 

[Inkheart]

Well i am not sure what it is LOL but it crows - the body shape - tail fearthers everything except the wattles shows to be a hen - and let me tell you my cochin rooster is a manly man and will have NOTHING to do with another rooster and he was fooled!

 

[columbiacritter]

Chicken genetics are complex and they can be Hermaphrodites(Both Sexes). Usually they look more hennish but show a lot of roo behavior and rarely, if ever, lay. If you butcher your umm "Butch" hen you will probably find her reproductive tract is very under sized.

 

[Inkheart]

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Really that is actually fascinating . I mean i called my friend who also has chickens and he thought as i did - that really looks like a hen thank you!